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\nFiona Donohoe, the mother of Noah Donohoe, outside Belfast Coroner’s Court<\/p>\n
A woman who saw Noah Donohoe fall from his bike on the evening he went missing has said she was “confused” about a police theory that the schoolboy suffered a head injury.<\/p>\n
Amanda Seenan told the inquest in Belfast that she did not see Noah suffer any such injury despite witnessing the fall she described as “not light”.<\/p>\n
Noah was 14 when he was found dead in a storm drain in north Belfast in June 2020, six days after leaving home on his bike to meet two friends in the Cavehill area of Belfast.<\/p>\n
The inquest into his death heard from a number of witness accounts to Noah’s journey on the evening he disappeared.<\/p>\n
One witness told the coroner\u2019s court how Noah had looked “startled” after he fell while another said he had “appeared unsteady” as he cycled.<\/p>\n
Ms Seenan\u2019s police statement was read to the hearing in Belfast Coroner\u2019s Court.<\/p>\n
The statement said she had gone for a drive with her baby daughter on the evening of 21 June 2020 when she saw a male cyclist ahead of her on North Queen Street in Belfast.<\/p>\n
She said: “He was to my left, I noticed the male took a tumble off his bike.<\/p>\n
“He was just approaching the bus layby when he fell.<\/p>\n
“The bike went with him when he fell.<\/p>\n
“I slowed down as I was about to come to the end of the road and see if the male was OK.<\/p>\n
“I could see, though, that the male had jumped up and got onto his bike again.<\/p>\n
“He got up pretty quick and pedalled away along the bus layby.”<\/p>\n
Ms Seenan said she saw a green coat had been left lying on the road.<\/p>\n
When questioned by counsel to the coroner Peter Coll KC, Ms Seenan said it “wasn\u2019t a wee fall”.<\/p>\n
She said: “It\u2019s pretty bad, not horrifically bad, but it wasn\u2019t just a light fall to the side or whatever, he did go forward.”<\/p>\n
Ms Seenan later told the inquest that she did not see Noah hit his head on the road.<\/p>\n
Counsel for Noah\u2019s mother Fiona Donohoe, Brenda Campbell KC, showed the witness a PSNI press release from the period when Noah was missing which stated that a witness had seen him fall off his bike and possibly suffer a head injury.<\/p>\n
Ms Seenan said she had no reason to believe that Noah had suffered a head injury.<\/p>\n
She said she “was a bit miffed” that it had been reported that Noah may have had an injury because she had not told this to police.<\/p>\n
She said: “I didn\u2019t believe he had a head injury.”<\/p>\n
Ms Campbell then showed the witness a police document from the PSNI senior investigating officer in the case which said that the theory that Noah had injured his head was based upon Ms Seenan\u2019s witness evidence.<\/p>\n
\nFiona Donohoe, the mother of Noah Donohoe, outside Belfast Coroner’s Court<\/p>\n
Ms Seenan said: “I definitely didn\u2019t say he had a head injury, because I know I didn\u2019t see him hit his head.<\/p>\n
“So, I was very confused as to where that was coming from.”<\/p>\n
The inquest also heard from Sin\u00e9ad Quinn, who said she contacted police after she saw a youth when driving at the junction of North Queen Street and Alexandra Park Avenue.<\/p>\n
Her statement said she saw a young male picking a bike off the road, but did not see him fall.<\/p>\n
Ms Quinn said: “He picked the bike up off the ground, got onto it and began to cycle away towards the Shore Road away from city centre.”<\/p>\n
She said she then saw his jacket was still on the road.<\/p>\n
She said: “I beeped the horn to point this out to him.<\/p>\n
“He looked startled, he didn\u2019t lift the coat, but just cycled on, which I thought was strange.”<\/p>\n
Witness Nathan Montgomery told the hearing that he saw a young cyclist on the road when travelling to pick up takeaway food in north Belfast shortly after 6pm.<\/p>\n
He said that when he was returning along North Queen Street a short time later he saw the same cyclist.<\/p>\n
Mr Montgomery said: “I slowed down to his speed as he appeared to sway out from the pavement toward the middle of the lane and back in a couple of times.<\/p>\n
“This did not appear exaggerated, only slight, it was enough to make me wary of passing the cyclist.<\/p>\n
“I waited for the oncoming lane to be completely clear before passing the cyclist, I assumed his swaying out from the pavement to be lack of experience on a bicycle and nothing else.<\/p>\n
“It did stick in my mind that he appeared unsteady.”<\/p>\n
Mr Montgomery said he gave a statement to police after they called at his home later in the week seeking information about Noah and spoke to his wife.<\/p>\n
The statement of witness Beryl Smyth was read to the court.<\/p>\n
She said she was sitting in her house at Northwood Crescent in north Belfast reading a book when she saw a young cyclist pass by on the footpath.<\/p>\n
She said she saw the cyclist working at the straps of his helmet.<\/p>\n
The witness said when she left her house a short time later to go to church she saw the helmet on the pavement beside the lamppost.<\/p>\n
She said the helmet was still there when she returned from church.<\/p>\n
The court heard from Krzysztof Kozakiewicz, who was driving to drop a friend off on the Northwood Road in north Belfast when he saw a male standing on the street with no top on.<\/p>\n
The inquest, which is in its second week, continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who saw Noah Donohoe fall from his bike on the evening he went missing has said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-269527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}